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The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror
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Author/contributor
- Mazzini, Miha (Author)
Title
The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror
Abstract
So much of your daily life – your job, your health, your home – hinges on the fact that your name is in a government database. Are you a legal citizen of your country, with everything that entails? You are, until an anonymous bureaucrat hits a key one night and strips it all away, turning you into an illegal immigrant. It happened in Slovenia in 1992. In February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants.
Publication
The Guardian
Date
2026-09-18
Section
Opinion
ISSN
0261-3077
Accessed
9/23/26, 2:31 AM
Language
English
Library Catalog
The Guardian
License
Migration, Displacement & Trafficking
Extra
Slovenia
Citation
Mazzini, M. (2026, September 18). The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/18/remigration-europe-slovenia-government-immigrants
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Geography
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